Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

That investigation detailed how the 38-year-old Shefel adopted the nickname Rescator while working as vice president of payments at ChronoPay , a Russian financial company that paid spammers to advertise fake antivirus scams, male enhancement drugs and knockoff pharmaceuticals. ” Dmitri Golubov, circa 2005. Image: U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 1, 2023

Megatraffer explained that malware purveyors need a certificate because many antivirus products will be far more interested in unsigned software, and because signed files downloaded from the Internet don’t tend to get blocked by security features built into modern web browsers. “Antivirus software trusts signed programs more.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 25, 2021

A young woman plays on the Electronic Arts (EA) newest product “Sims2 – Nightlife” at a Computer Gaming Convention on August 18, 2005 in Leipzig, Germany. That represents a 340% increase year-over-year, a 415% increase since 2018 and accounted for about 4% of the more than 6.3 Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images).

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 21, 2025

Palo Alto Networks Best protection against network, endpoint, and remote asset attacks Headquarters: Santa Clara, California Founded: 2005 Annual Revenue: $7.52 billion in revenue, Trend Micro continues growing steadily past its first-gen antivirus vendor status. Fortinet: Best for Network Security Perimeter Protection 15 $74.33

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 16, 2022

Hackers are seen exploiting this vulnerability to run arbitrary code and can alter, change, view or delete information from the application, along with the procedure, to create new accounts. Users using Windows 7 and 8 OS and using Office tools that are obsolete like MS Office 2005 and such have to be cautious about the new alert.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

Company Sector Year Status Satori DataSecOps 2021 Private BluBracket Software supply chain 2021 Private Cape Privacy Data security 2021 Private ZecOps Digital forensics 2019 Private SecurityScorecard Risk ratings 2017 Private Carbon Black Security software 2015 Acquired: VMware AVG Antivirus software 2015 Acquired: Avast. ForgePoint Capital.

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Elie

MAY 30, 2018

Adversarial inputs include malicious documents designed to evade antivirus, and emails attempting to evade spam filters. This strategy is mostly carried out by implementing rate limiting on scarce resources such as IP and accounts. forums where accounts and IP addresses are routinely sold, as visible in the screenshot above.

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